 A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means by which they may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced...  Niles' National Register - 第 65 頁1819完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Tetsuo Satō - 1996 - 328 頁
...Maryland (1819),51 in which Chief Justice Marshall stated as follows: "[The nature of a constitution requires] that only its great outlines should be marked,...deduced from the nature of the objects themselves.... In considering [the present] question, then, we must never forget that it is a constitution we are... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs - 1996 - 284 頁
...execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. Only its great outlines should be marked, its important...deduced from the nature of the objects themselves." He then says his very famous line, "It is a Constitution we are expounding," that is, it is a document... | |
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